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April
In Insoutenables longues étreintes, four young adults binge on sex, drugs and vegetarian meals. They get caught up in an uncompromising and mystical quest that involves abortion, adultery and the pursuit of pleasure. This is a provincial debut for the play by controversial playwright Ivan Vyrypaev. For his inaugural production as artistic director, Philippe Cyr chose Christine Beaulieu, Marc Beaupré, Joanie Guérin and Simon Lacroix. Vincent Legault, a versatile and talented artist who is also the main arranger for Dear Criminals, is the music producer for the show, and Frédéric Auger is the sound engineer.
Prospero, March 28-April 14. www.theatreprospero.com
The fabulous Catherine Léger brings a loose and fresh take on Claude Fournier and Marie-José Raymond’s acclaimed erotic comedy, Deux femmes en or. She emphasizes the double standard that still weighs on the shoulders of women who choose to embrace their sexual lives, and the strain of the perfect family that confronts today’s mothers. In this top-class production by the Théâtre de la Manufacture, Philippe Lambert directs Charlotte Aubin, Isabelle Brouillette, Sophie Desmarais, Steve Laplante and Mathieu Quesnel. The composer and musician Ludovic Bonnier, a musical “illustrator” who’s all about textures and sound, signs the music of the show.
La Licorne, April 18-May 13. www.theatrelalicorne.com
Because music is both shared and has no border, An Laurence brings a proposal that merges contemporary musical creation, theatrical experience and interpersonal art to enact temporality. Four music-theatre performances and a visual work are part of the ambitious program of 安媛: Do you have a minute? By Jing Wang, Gabo Champagne, Ivetta Sunyoung Kang, the Paramorph Collective and Thais Montanari.
La chapelle, April 19, April 20. www.lachapelle.org
May
Dana Gingras, Thierry Amar, Timothy Herzog, Efrim Menuck, and Sophie Trudeau of post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor welcome you to the free performance Creation destruction. With 11 of Canada’s best dancers, an art installation by United Visual Artists and Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s mesmerizing post-rock music, the performance is guaranteed to be one to remember.
Esplanade Tranquille, May 25-27. www.fta.ca
Nehanda is a full-length piece by Zimbabwean choreographer nora chipaumire, now based in Berlin. The major figure of the international dance scene engages musicians, singers and audiences in a four-hour-plus ceremony-concert to praise the spirit of Nehanda, who reached out to the bodies of the great female figures of the freedom movements under the British Empire—specifically heroic female leader of the anti-colonial uprising in Rhodesia in 1896-97, Charwe Nyakasikana. A cross-disciplinary, philosophical and historical revision. In Shona, English, Ndebele, Ewe, Afrikaans and Kriolu.
Espace Go, May 26-28. www.fta.ca
In Soliloquio the emerging Argentine Indigenous artist Tiziano Cruz explores his birth village’s collective memory, in an overly discriminating society. He criticizes the way in which the lower classes are marginalized and Indigenous bodies invisibilized in a system dominated by whites. This biographical performance opens with a joyful street parade, starring a traditional music and dance ensemble from the Andean diaspora in Montreal. The second part, a performative conference, takes place indoors. In Spanish with French and English surtitles.
Place Émilie-Gamelin + Le National, May 28-30. www.fta.ca
June
After winning audiences and awards on the Fringe circuit for years, Josephine: A Musical Cabaret takes over Segal Centre’s main stage to celebrate the singer, activist, movie star, spy and freedom fighter who contributed so much during World War II. Go for Tymisha Harris, who sings and dances beautifully, and to pay respect to the memory of Josephine Baker, one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century who also was the first African-American international superstar. In French and English.
Warning: Contains a burlesque-style striptease number.
Segal Centre, May 28-June 18. www.segalcentre.org
Haunted by Northern Ireland’s past, Oona Doherty’s most ambitious piece is Navy Blue. In blue overalls, a dozen performers of various ages and different ethnic backgrounds gather to dance in fury to condemn the brutality, the patriarchy and the religious strife that have been undermining Northern Ireland. Performed on piano: Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninoff.
Théâtre Maisonneuve, May 30-June 1. www.fta.ca
Electroacoustic performer Thomas Sinou is a founding member of the Quebec trio L’eau du bain, which brings White Out, a sensorial reminiscent drama about Marguerite Duras. A highly anticipated poetic journey. In French.
Théâtre Rouge du Conservatoire, June 2-4. www.fta.ca
In the same setting, the company also caters to the imaginations of the youngest with La chambre des enfants, a fantasy for children aged from 7 to 77. For all daydreamers.
Théâtre Rouge du Conservatoire, June 3, June 4. www.fta.ca
What do we have to do in order to survive? And to exist? Since the première of Bronx Gothic in 2014, American dancer and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili has toured this feminist work everywhere. Wanjiru Kamuyu reopens it and slips her feelings and history into it. Half dance, half installation, the show is built on an interaction between two young black girls in an America that favours white people. With original songs by Okwui Okpokwasili and the powerful music of Peter Born and Okwui Okpokwasili. In English with French supertitles.
Wilder Studio-Theatre Building, June 6-8. www.fta.ca
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